The Power of the Press is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as an aspiring newspaper reporter and Jobyna Ralston as a young woman suspected of murder. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1943, Columbia Pictures reused the title, without the leading The, for another newspaper picture, but it had a completely different plot and was not a remake. Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Clem Rogers Jobyna Ralston as Jane Atwill Mildred Harris as Marie Weston Philo McCullough as Robert Blake Wheeler Oakman as Van Robert Edeson as City Editor Edward Davis as Mr. John Atwill Dell Henderson as Bill Johnson Charles Clary as District Attorney Nye Spottiswoode Aitken as Sports Writer Frank Manning as Detective References External links 1928 films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films 1928 drama films Films about journalists Films directed by Frank Capra American silent feature films United States National Film Registry films Silent American drama films Films with screenplays by Sonya Levien 1920s American films